Surveillance
Politics & Society
Surveillance: What is it good for?
Online monitoring raises serious questions about privacy and rights, but where justified it can be used for good if organisations consider wider issues like transparency and fairness
Sciences & Technology
TikTok captures your face
TikTok is hugely popular. But its latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy
Arts & Culture
Poetry as a surveillance survival guide
In an age of pervasive surveillance and social media promotion, reading poetry matters more than ever as we try to come to terms with our technologically-led society
Health & Medicine
Privacy and health: The lessons of COVID-19
Despite public support, the COVIDSafe app failed to reach its download target. So, what are the implications for future policies that need citizens to share information?
Sciences & Technology
When tools for a health emergency become tools of oppression
Surveillance technology deployed to combat COVID-19 can quickly be used against civil freedoms
Politics & Society
The cost to freedom in the war against COVID-19
Mass digital surveillance is increasingly being used around the world to control COVID-19. But once the pandemic fades, will the surveillance stay?
Politics & Society
AI: It’s time for the law to respond
The law is always behind technology but given the sweeping changes heralded by new technologies, legislators need to get in front of the issue
Health & Medicine
Sensors and big data are showing how our minds work
Big data and personal sensing technology are revolutionising psychology, opening new frontiers in our understanding of how our minds work and how we treat mental illness
Sciences & Technology
Four myths about insertable tech and why they’re wrong
As headlines proclaim that microchips injected under the skin could allow employers to track our every move, the reality is very different
Business & Economics
Podcast
The boss’ gaze: Workplace surveillance and what it means
Management expert Graham Sewell on the evolution of workplace surveillance, what it’s really measuring, and why it’s so unsettling